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The House voted to boost the federal minimum wage for the first time since early 1981, casting a solid 382-37 
vote for a compromise measure backed by President Bush. The vote came after a debate replete with complaints 
from both proponents and critics of a substantial increase in the wage floor. Advocates said the 90-cent-an-hour 
rise, to $4.25 an hour by April 1991, is too small for the working poor, while opponents argued that the increase
will still hurt small business and cost many thousands of jobs. But the legislation reflected a compromise agreed 
to on Tuesday by President Bush and Democratic leaders in Congress, after congressional Republicans urged the 
White House to bend a bit from its previous resistance to compromise. So both sides accepted the compromise, 
which would lead to the first lifting of the minimum wage since a four-year law was enacted in 1977, raising the 
wage to $3.35 an hour from $2.65. Under the measure passed yesterday, the minimum wage would rise to $3.80 next 
April. The Senate plans to take up the measure quickly and is expected to pass it. `` There are no smiles about 
this bill, '' Rep. Pat Williams D., Mont. said during House floor debate yesterday. But `` because it's all we've
 got, I 'm going to vote for it. '' While the minimum wage had traditionally been pegged at half the average U.S.
 manufacturing wage, the level of $4.25 an hour in 1991 will still be less than 35 % of average factory pay, Mr. 
Williams said. But Rep. Marge Roukema R., N.J. instead praised the House's acceptance of a new youth 
`` training '' wage, a subminimum that GOP administrations have sought for many years. Adopting a training-wage 
policy means `` getting beyond the nickel and diming of the minimum wage, '' Mrs. Roukema said. Policy makers 
regard the youth wage as helping to limit the loss of jobs from an increase in the minimum wage, but they have 
lately touted it as necessary to help impart job skills to entrants into the work force. Labor unions and 
Democrats long fought the idea, but recently acceded to it in the face of Bush administration insistence. The 
compromise sets the training wage at $3.35 an hour next April, and at $3.61 an hour, or 85 % of the minimum wage,
in April 1991. Employers can pay the subminimum for 90 days, without restriction, to workers with less than six 
months of job experience, and for another 90 days if the company uses a government-certified training program for
the young workers. The training wage covers only workers who are 16 to 19 years old. The White House previously 
insisted on an unrestricted six-month training wage that could be paid any time a worker of any age took a new 
job. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, still opposed to any mininum-wage increase, said the compromise plan to lift 
the wage floor 27 % in two stages between April 1990 and April 1991 `` will be impossible for many employers to 
accommodate and will result in the elimination of jobs for American workers and higher prices for American 
consumers.
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    <desc id="2100" len="8" off="2034">799~801</desc>
    <desc id="2101" len="2" off="2068">813</desc>
    <desc id="2102" len="42" off="2074">817~819~821~823~825~827</desc>
    <desc id="2103" len="4" off="2086">823</desc>
    <desc id="2104" len="19" off="2086">823~825</desc>
    <desc id="2105" len="15" off="2118">832~834</desc>
    <desc id="2106" len="17" off="2139">838~840~842</desc>
    <desc id="2107" len="13" off="2160">846~848~850~852</desc>
    <desc id="2108" len="10" off="2174">854~856</desc>
    <desc id="2109" len="42" off="2193">864~866~868~870~872~874~876~878~880~882~884~886</desc>
    <desc id="2110" len="16" off="2219">882~884~886</desc>
    <desc id="2111" len="10" off="2240">892~894</desc>
    <desc id="2112" len="9" off="2252">899</desc>
    <desc id="2113" len="14" off="2270">905~907</desc>
    <desc id="2114" len="7" off="2289">911~913</desc>
    <desc id="2115" len="11" off="2306">919</desc>
    <desc id="2116" len="52" off="2322">925~927~929~931~933~935~937~939~941</desc>
    <desc id="2117" len="15" off="2384">949~951~953</desc>
    <desc id="2118" len="11" off="2403">957~959</desc>
    <desc id="2119" len="39" off="2420">963~965~967~969</desc>
    <desc id="2120" len="17" off="2464">973~975~977</desc>
    <desc id="2121" len="17" off="2483">982~984~986</desc>
    <desc id="2122" len="34" off="2513">992~994~996~998~1000~1002~1004~1006</desc>
    <desc id="2123" len="15" off="2549">1011~1013~1015</desc>
    <desc id="2124" len="39" off="2589">1023~1025~1027~1029~1031</desc>
    <desc id="2125" len="19" off="2657">1045~1047~1049~1051~1053</desc>
    <desc id="2126" len="10" off="2682">1057~1059~1061</desc>
    <desc id="2127" len="28" off="2694">1066~1068~1070~1072~1074</desc>
    <desc id="2128" len="4" off="2698">1068</desc>
    <desc id="2129" len="25" off="2741">1084~1086~1088</desc>
    <desc id="2130" len="96" off="2773">1094~1096~1098~1100~1102~1104~1106~1108~1110~1112~1114~1116~1118~1120~1122~1124~1126~1128~1130</desc>
    <desc id="2131" len="14" off="2802">1104~1106~1108</desc>
    <desc id="2132" len="10" off="2844">1122~1124</desc>
    <desc id="2133" len="10" off="2859">1128~1130</desc>
    <desc id="2134" len="14" off="2896">1142~1144</desc>
    <desc id="2135" len="44" off="2946">1158~1160~1162~1164~1166~1168~1170</desc>
    <desc id="2136" len="16" off="2974">1168~1170</desc>
    <desc id="2137" len="37" off="2995">1174~1176~1178~1180~1182</desc>
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    <desc id="2139" len="1539" off="0">The House|2012,2063,2081</desc>
    <desc id="2140" len="2791" off="25">the federal minimum wage|2013,2024,2045,2048,2053,2070,2087,2092,2110,2131</desc>
    <desc id="2141" len="31" off="54">the first time since early 1981|2014</desc>
    <desc id="2142" len="10" off="75">early 1981|2015</desc>
    <desc id="2143" len="80" off="95">a solid 382-37 vote|2016,2019</desc>
    <desc id="2144" len="2749" off="120">a compromise measure backed by President Bush|2017,2034,2051,2057,2058,2060,2066,2069,2105,2130</desc>
    <desc id="2145" len="1939" off="151">President Bush|2018,2036,2103</desc>
    <desc id="2146" len="8" off="187">a debate|2020</desc>
    <desc id="2147" len="10" off="209">complaints|2021</desc>
    <desc id="2148" len="71" off="226">both proponents and critics of a substantial increase in the wage floor|2022</desc>
    <desc id="2149" len="191" off="257">a substantial increase in the wage floor|2023,2026,2031</desc>
    <desc id="2150" len="9" off="299">Advocates|2025</desc>
    <desc id="2151" len="13" off="344">$4.25 an hour|2027</desc>
    <desc id="2152" len="2508" off="361">April 1991|2028,2111,2133</desc>
    <desc id="2153" len="16" off="390">the working poor|2029</desc>
    <desc id="2154" len="9" off="414">opponents|2030</desc>
    <desc id="2155" len="14" off="465">small business|2032</desc>
    <desc id="2156" len="22" off="489">many thousands of jobs|2033</desc>
    <desc id="2157" len="239" off="543">a compromise agreed to on Tuesday by President Bush and Democratic leaders in Congress|2035,2043</desc>
    <desc id="2158" len="30" off="600">Democratic leaders in Congress|2037</desc>
    <desc id="2159" len="25" off="638">congressional Republicans|2038</desc>
    <desc id="2160" len="1894" off="670">the White House|2039,2040,2104,2123</desc>
    <desc id="2161" len="37" off="706">its previous resistance to compromise|2041</desc>
    <desc id="2162" len="10" off="748">both sides|2042</desc>
    <desc id="2163" len="79" off="805">the first lifting of the minimum wage since a four-year law was enacted in 1977|2044</desc>
    <desc id="2164" len="15" off="849">a four-year law|2046</desc>
    <desc id="2165" len="4" off="880">1977|2047</desc>
    <desc id="2166" len="1266" off="907">$3.35 an hour|2049,2107</desc>
    <desc id="2167" len="5" off="926">$2.65|2050</desc>
    <desc id="2168" len="249" off="958">yesterday|2052,2065</desc>
    <desc id="2169" len="5" off="1000">$3.80|2054</desc>
    <desc id="2170" len="1848" off="1006">next April|2055,2108,2132</desc>
    <desc id="2171" len="10" off="1019">The Senate|2056</desc>
    <desc id="2172" len="26" off="1108">no smiles about this bill|2059</desc>
    <desc id="2173" len="336" off="1139">Rep. Pat Williams D., Mont.|2061,2068,2077</desc>
    <desc id="2174" len="4" off="1161">Mont|2062</desc>
    <desc id="2175" len="18" off="1179">House floor debate|2064</desc>
    <desc id="2176" len="2" off="1233">we|2067</desc>
    <desc id="2177" len="41" off="1331">half the average U.S. manufacturing wage|2071</desc>
    <desc id="2178" len="1354" off="1348">U.S.|2072,2128</desc>
    <desc id="2179" len="34" off="1374">the level of $4.25 an hour in 1991|2073</desc>
    <desc id="2180" len="4" off="1404">1991|2074</desc>
    <desc id="2181" len="37" off="1423">less than 35 % of average factory pay|2075</desc>
    <desc id="2182" len="19" off="1441">average factory pay|2076</desc>
    <desc id="2183" len="285" off="1486">Rep. Marge Roukema R., N.J.|2078,2088</desc>
    <desc id="2184" len="4" off="1509">N.J.|2079</desc>
    <desc id="2185" len="124" off="1530">the House's acceptance of a new youth `` training '' wage|2080</desc>
    <desc id="2186" len="944" off="1556">a new youth `` training '' wage|2082,2090,2094,2106,2113,2121</desc>
    <desc id="2187" len="19" off="1608">GOP administrations|2083</desc>
    <desc id="2188" len="10" off="1644">many years|2084</desc>
    <desc id="2189" len="23" off="1665">a training-wage policy|2085</desc>
    <desc id="2190" len="48" off="1706">beyond the nickel and diming of the minimum wage|2086</desc>
    <desc id="2191" len="120" off="1778">Policy makers|2089,2093</desc>
    <desc id="2192" len="53" off="1835">the loss of jobs from an increase in the minimum wage|2091</desc>
    <desc id="2193" len="10" off="1950">job skills|2095</desc>
    <desc id="2194" len="517" off="1964">entrants into the work force|2096,2116,2120</desc>
    <desc id="2195" len="1012" off="1978">the work force|2097,2136</desc>
    <desc id="2196" len="12" off="1994">Labor unions|2098</desc>
    <desc id="2197" len="9" off="2012">Democrats|2099</desc>
    <desc id="2198" len="36" off="2034">the idea|2100,2101</desc>
    <desc id="2199" len="42" off="2074">the face of Bush administration insistence|2102</desc>
    <desc id="2200" len="42" off="2193">$3.61 an hour|2109</desc>
    <desc id="2201" len="162" off="2252">Employers|2112,2118</desc>
    <desc id="2202" len="7" off="2289">90 days|2114</desc>
    <desc id="2203" len="11" off="2306">restriction|2115</desc>
    <desc id="2204" len="15" off="2384">another 90 days|2117</desc>
    <desc id="2205" len="39" off="2420">a government-certified training program|2119</desc>
    <desc id="2206" len="34" off="2513">workers who are 16 to 19 years old|2122</desc>
    <desc id="2207" len="39" off="2589">an unrestricted six-month training wage|2124</desc>
    <desc id="2208" len="19" off="2657">a worker of any age|2125</desc>
    <desc id="2209" len="10" off="2682">a new job|2126</desc>
    <desc id="2210" len="28" off="2694">The U.S. Chamber of Commerce|2127</desc>
    <desc id="2211" len="25" off="2741">any mininum-wage increase|2129</desc>
    <desc id="2212" len="14" off="2896">many employers|2134</desc>
    <desc id="2213" len="44" off="2946">the elimination of jobs for American workers|2135</desc>
    <desc id="2214" len="37" off="2995">higher prices for American consumers|2137</desc>
    <desc id="2215" len="19" off="3013">American consumers|2138</desc>
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  <rep id="es.ucm.nil.indication.rep.indication">
    <desc id="2216" len="9" off="0">2012|MOD:DIST:2|NUC:DIST:4</desc>
    <desc id="2217" len="24" off="25">2013|MOD:DIST:12|MOD:DESC:14|MOD:DIST:16|NUC:DIST:18</desc>
    <desc id="2218" len="31" off="54">2014|MOD:DIST:22|MOD:DIST:24|NUC:DIST:26|MOD:DIST:28~30~32</desc>
    <desc id="2219" len="10" off="75">2015|MOD:DIST:30|NUC:DIST:32</desc>
    <desc id="2220" len="20" off="95">2016|MOD:DIST:38|MOD:DESC:40|MOD:DIST:42|NUC:DIST:44</desc>
    <desc id="2221" len="45" off="120">2017|MOD:DIST:48|MOD:DESC:50|NUC:DIST:52|MOD:DESC:54~56~58~60</desc>
    <desc id="2222" len="14" off="151">2018|MOD:DIST:58|NUC:DIST:60</desc>
    <desc id="2223" len="8" off="167">2019|MOD:DIST:65|NUC:DIST:67</desc>
    <desc id="2224" len="8" off="187">2020|MOD:DIST:73|NUC:DIST:75</desc>
    <desc id="2225" len="10" off="209">2021|NUC:DIST:81</desc>
    <desc id="2226" len="71" off="226">2022|MOD:DESC:85|NUC:DIST:87~89~91|MOD:DIST:93~95~97~99~101~103~105~107</desc>
    <desc id="2227" len="40" off="257">2023|MOD:DIST:95|MOD:DESC:97|NUC:DIST:99|MOD:DIST:101~103~105~107</desc>
    <desc id="2228" len="14" off="283">2024|MOD:DIST:103|MOD:DIST:105|NUC:DESC:107</desc>
    <desc id="2229" len="9" off="299">2025|NUC:DIST:112</desc>
    <desc id="2230" len="25" off="314">2026|MOD:DIST:116|MOD:DIST:118|NUC:DIST:120</desc>
    <desc id="2231" len="13" off="344">2027|NUC:DIST:126~128|MOD:DESC:130~132</desc>
    <desc id="2232" len="10" off="361">2028|NUC:DIST:136|MOD:DIST:138</desc>
    <desc id="2233" len="16" off="390">2029|MOD:DIST:150|MOD:DESC:152|NUC:DIST:154</desc>
    <desc id="2234" len="9" off="414">2030|NUC:DIST:160</desc>
    <desc id="2235" len="12" off="436">2031|MOD:DIST:166|NUC:DIST:168</desc>
    <desc id="2236" len="14" off="465">2032|MOD:DIST:176|NUC:DIST:178</desc>
    <desc id="2237" len="22" off="489">2033|MOD:DIST:184~186~188|NUC:DIST:190</desc>
    <desc id="2238" len="15" off="517">2034|MOD:DIST:197|NUC:DIST:199</desc>
    <desc id="2239" len="87" off="543">2035|MOD:DIST:203|NUC:DIST:205|MOD:DIST:207~209~211~213~215~217~219~221~223~225~227~229</desc>
    <desc id="2240" len="14" off="581">2036|MOD:DIST:217|NUC:DIST:219</desc>
    <desc id="2241" len="30" off="600">2037|MOD:DIST:223|NUC:DIST:225|MOD:DIST:227~229</desc>
    <desc id="2242" len="25" off="638">2038|MOD:DIST:235|NUC:DIST:237</desc>
    <desc id="2243" len="16" off="670">2039|MOD:DIST:241|NUC:DIST:243~245</desc>
    <desc id="2244" len="3" off="706">2040|NUC:DIST:257</desc>
    <desc id="2245" len="37" off="706">2041|MOD:DIST:257|MOD:DESC:259|NUC:DIST:261|MOD:DIST:263~265</desc>
    <desc id="2246" len="10" off="748">2042|MOD:DIST:272|NUC:DIST:274</desc>
    <desc id="2247" len="14" off="768">2043|MOD:DIST:278|NUC:DIST:280</desc>
    <desc id="2248" len="79" off="805">2044|MOD:DIST:292|MOD:DIST:294|NUC:DIST:296|MOD:DIST:298~300~302~304~306~308~310~312~314~316~318~320</desc>
    <desc id="2249" len="16" off="826">2045|MOD:DIST:300|MOD:DIST:302|NUC:DIST:304</desc>
    <desc id="2250" len="15" off="849">2046|MOD:DIST:308|MOD:DESC:310|NUC:DIST:312</desc>
    <desc id="2251" len="4" off="880">2047|NUC:DIST:320</desc>
    <desc id="2252" len="9" off="894">2048|MOD:DIST:326|NUC:DIST:328</desc>
    <desc id="2253" len="13" off="907">2049|NUC:DIST:332~334|MOD:DESC:336~338</desc>
    <desc id="2254" len="5" off="926">2050|NUC:DIST:342~344</desc>
    <desc id="2255" len="28" off="939">2051|MOD:DIST:351|NUC:DIST:353|MOD:DIST:355~357</desc>
    <desc id="2256" len="9" off="958">2052|NUC:DIST:357</desc>
    <desc id="2257" len="16" off="969">2053|MOD:DIST:361|MOD:DIST:363|NUC:DIST:365</desc>
    <desc id="2258" len="5" off="1000">2054|NUC:DIST:373~375</desc>
    <desc id="2259" len="11" off="1006">2055|MOD:DIST:377|NUC:DIST:379</desc>
    <desc id="2260" len="10" off="1019">2056|MOD:DIST:384|NUC:DIST:386</desc>
    <desc id="2261" len="11" off="1047">2057|MOD:DIST:396|NUC:DIST:398</desc>
    <desc id="2262" len="2" off="1091">2058|NUC:DIST:412</desc>
    <desc id="2263" len="26" off="1108">2059|MOD:DIST:423|NUC:DIST:425|MOD:DESC:427~429~431</desc>
    <desc id="2264" len="9" off="1125">2060|MOD:DIST:429|NUC:DIST:431</desc>
    <desc id="2265" len="26" off="1139">2061|MOD:DESC:437|NUC:DIST:439~441|MOD:DESC:443|MOD:DESC:447</desc>
    <desc id="2266" len="4" off="1161">2062|NUC:DIST:447</desc>
    <desc id="2267" len="5" off="1179">2063|NUC:DIST:455</desc>
    <desc id="2268" len="18" off="1179">2064|MOD:DESC:455|MOD:DESC:457|NUC:DIST:459</desc>
    <desc id="2269" len="9" off="1198">2065|NUC:DIST:461</desc>
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    <desc id="2271" len="2" off="1233">2067|NUC:DIST:478</desc>
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    <desc id="2273" len="2" off="1268">2069|NUC:DIST:498</desc>
    <desc id="2274" len="16" off="1281">2070|MOD:DIST:507|MOD:DIST:509|NUC:DIST:511</desc>
    <desc id="2275" len="41" off="1331">2071|MOD:DIST:523~525~527|MOD:DESC:529|MOD:DIST:531|NUC:DIST:533</desc>
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    <desc id="2278" len="4" off="1404">2074|NUC:DIST:553</desc>
    <desc id="2279" len="37" off="1423">2075|MOD:DIST:561~563|NUC:DIST:565~567|MOD:DESC:569~571~573~575</desc>
    <desc id="2280" len="19" off="1441">2076|MOD:DIST:571|MOD:DIST:573|NUC:DIST:575</desc>
    <desc id="2281" len="13" off="1462">2077|MOD:DIST:579|NUC:DIST:581</desc>
    <desc id="2282" len="27" off="1486">2078|MOD:DESC:590|NUC:DIST:592~594|MOD:DESC:596|MOD:DESC:600~602</desc>
    <desc id="2283" len="3" off="1509">2079|NUC:DIST:600</desc>
    <desc id="2284" len="124" off="1530">2080|MOD:DIST:608|MOD:DIST:610~612|NUC:DIST:614|MOD:DIST:616~618~620~622~624~626~628~630~632~634~636~638~640~642~644~646~648~650~652</desc>
    <desc id="2285" len="5" off="1534">2081|NUC:DIST:610</desc>
    <desc id="2286" len="98" off="1556">2082|MOD:DIST:618|MOD:DESC:620|MOD:DIST:622|MOD:DIST:624~626~628|NUC:DIST:630|MOD:DESC:634~636~638~640~642~644~646~648~650~652</desc>
    <desc id="2287" len="19" off="1608">2083|MOD:DIST:640|NUC:DIST:642</desc>
    <desc id="2288" len="10" off="1644">2084|MOD:DESC:650|NUC:DIST:652</desc>
    <desc id="2289" len="23" off="1665">2085|MOD:DIST:659|MOD:DIST:661|NUC:DIST:663</desc>
    <desc id="2290" len="48" off="1706">2086|MOD:DIST:671|MOD:DIST:673|NUC:DESC:675~677~679|MOD:DESC:681~683~685~687</desc>
    <desc id="2291" len="16" off="1738">2087|MOD:DIST:683|MOD:DIST:685|NUC:DIST:687</desc>
    <desc id="2292" len="12" off="1759">2088|MOD:DIST:693|NUC:DIST:695</desc>
    <desc id="2293" len="13" off="1778">2089|MOD:DIST:702|NUC:DIST:704</desc>
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    <desc id="2298" len="2" off="1919">2094|NUC:DIST:756</desc>
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    <desc id="2308" len="19" off="2086">2104|MOD:DIST:823|NUC:DIST:825</desc>
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